Schoolbus safety: child safety alert system.

Existing law requires all schoolbuses to be equipped with certain safety features, as specified. Existing law requires, on or before the beginning of the 2018–19 school year, schoolbuses, school pupil activity buses, except as provided, youth buses, and child care motor vehicles to be equipped with an operational "child safety alert system," which is a device located at the interior rear of a vehicle that requires the driver to either manually contact or scan the device before exiting the vehicle, thereby prompting the driver to inspect the entirety of the interior of the vehicle before exiting. This bill would limit that requirement to those buses or vehicles that transport special needs pupils and would postpone that requirement until 6 months after the beginning of the 2018–19 school year for those buses or vehicles that do not transport special needs pupils. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.